Comment 9 for bug 30593

> make sure you've got mysql-server-4.1 installed before you install
> mythtv-database and you're ok.

That wasn't the case for me. I had mythtv installed and mysql-server-4.1 but a dist-upgrade uninstalled it for me for whatever reason. I don't think it uninstalled mysql-server but it may have. Then when I installed mythtv it wasn't working because of this bug and that for whatever reason mysql-server-5.0 was installed.

But that doesn't matter, the point is that the dependency needs to be on mysql-server-4.1 NOT mysql-server. OR mythtv should be updated to 0.19.